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I've been at a drawing workshop last week. Learned a lot, produced some nice sketches but sadly also a lot of bad ones (they're in the self-taught thread if anyone wants to see). Proportions, anatomy and plants are particularly hard for me. I've been practicing every day since then. Here are some sketches of objects around my house: A representative portrait of Tom Hardy    Oh poo poo, which is the real one???  Practiced eyes. The bottom three are  In spite of all this, I will keep drawing. I believe it to be the path to drawing better. I'm also doing that r/ArtFundamentals thingy but I'm still at the stage where I fill pages with circles and lines so I'm not posting that here.
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Jul 19, 2015 23:51
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Delta Echo posted:For a picture of Tom Hardy I would go with something like these Thanks, I'll give that a try. This kind of "trace-doodling" is what I do for most of my drawings, especially portraits. It's a habit Betty Edwards has hammered into me and that I'm trying to get out of by drawing more consciously (and reading a fuckton of other books on drawing). Here's a thing I made two days ago. I drew a sketch first and then I put away the plate and worked some more on the drawing without reference, just trying to make it look realistic. It didn't change much, but I think it got better in some areas. SKETCH  IMPROVED VERSION  I still hate ellipses.
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Jul 23, 2015 23:56
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I just bought like five books on drawing so there better be web tutorials for that or else good ellipses will have to wait a bit longer  I'm still struggling a lot with the right balance between measuring and loose sketching. I always feel like if I measure too much I will fall into a habit where I just copy, and if I don't measure I will end up with an unrepresentative result. That said I learned some things about this flower and tomorrow I will go back outside and try different approaches for drawing it, from various angles, and maybe also to construct it from imagination. And when I'm done with that I'll spend two more days learning a different flower.
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Jul 24, 2015 20:37
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Went back to the flowers and tried different approaches drawing them. The bottom six are from imagination. Wanted to focus on different parts and angles today but then the black smudge at the bottom happened and now I think I need a change of subject because obviously I can't be arsed to draw that loving flower again 
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Jul 26, 2015 12:11
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Delta Echo posted:My beginning painting prof frequently critiqued our paintings for looking like stickers. Without incorporating a form into its surroundings, it looked very much like a sticker on the canvas. It was especially true when the form started with an outline that remained visible. I didn't get to do much drawing in the recent days so I can't post anything yet, but before this thread gets closed I just wanted to say thanks for the advice and I'll definitely try this out. When I was at that drawing workshop my teacher chided me for never including any kind of environment or background context in my sketches and this seems like a nice, easy way to work around those problems.
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Jul 30, 2015 07:58
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